![]() ![]() Decoud’s determination, however, is to make their province independent, rather than trying to restore the entirety of the country – he trusts the power of the mine to preserve their economic autonomy. ![]() Decoud, finding Antonia hard to win, decides to take up the political torch dropped by her aging father. Gould can think of only his silver mine and his workers, putting his own and his wife’s safety at risk as he prepares to defend it. The frail presidency of Ribiera, ally of the mine owner Charles Gould, is threatened by the rebel Monterists, who are trying to take over the country and stage a military coup. Things have been heating up politically in Costaguana. Part II of Nostromo introduces a new set of characters: Antonia, the “liberated” yet refined daughter of the statesman Don Jose Martin Decoud, a young journalist head-over-heels in love with Antonia Hirsch the German trader and even the title character himself, so notably absent from Part I, plays a major role in The Isabels. ![]()
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